“Nothing has any need of me, nothing has any need of anybody, because nothing has any need to exist.” —
Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (dp)
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ETA Grounds by Kyle Ware, from Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, by Greg Carlisle
Some crazy shit goes on within these premises…
Manifest Destiny; oil on linen; by Bo Bartlett
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Long before Julia Child discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas was sampling local dishes, collecting recipes, and cooking for the writers, artists, and expats who lived in Paris between the wars. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso shared meals at the home she kept with Gertrude Stein, who famously memorialized her in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, however, is her true memoir: a collection of traditional French recipes that predates Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Toklas supplies familiar recipes such as coq au vin, bouillabaisse, and boeuf bourguignon, along with what is perhaps the earliest instructions for haschich fudge (“which anyone could whip up on a rainy day”), and she entertains with fascinating memories of Paris—Toklas’ home for most of her life—and of rural France, Spain, and America.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-1-1) -
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Pruszkowski, Witold (1846-1896) - 1893c. Going into Exile (Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine) (via RasMarley)
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